Apotheosis of King James I/Rubens, 1630 — The National Gallery, London — Copyright: Private Collection 2000
Want to know why fundraising skills are overtaking art historical credentials as the most important job requirement for museum directors? Check out the latest issue of The Art Newspaper, which reports that the National …
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As Carrie Bradshaw might ask, does size matter? We’ll finally have a chance to find out, as a deal has been struck to bring Sex and the City to a bigger screen in movie form.
Says Variety, “Fans of the show have clamored for a movie version of Sex and the City since the series ended.” Have they? Count me as a fan of the show. Count me …
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On Lost, if it’s not one thing, it’s another. Literally. There’s been plenty written by Lostophiles about the show’s dualities: faith/reason, black/white, destiny vs. free will, and so on. There are probably several weeks’ worth of LDG questions in there, but for now, let’s stick with one: good / evil. Namely:
Who or what are the “good …
Taking the day off. Cya tomorrow.
Something of a cri de couer over the weekend by Hugh Pearman in The Sunday Times of London, registering his exasperation over the global frenzy to commission buildings by the familiar roster of architecture stars. I disagree, but I lived through the ’80s and ’90s in New York, when much was built and almost all of it was middling and …
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FOX
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature this summer sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots may be rewritten, recast and reshot before airing, and end up much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so let’s get on with…
The Show: …
Movies robots aren’t just mindless automatons. They can often be metal marvels with their own charismatic personalities. TIME looks at cinema’s long tradition of smart silver screen machines.
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HBO
Big Love is on a tear right now; while this episode didn’t quite match last week’s, it was again one of my favorites yet. It feels like the first season was just a prologue to this one–the show spent some slow time building its wide web of relationships, and we’re now seeing that pay dividends.
Another great week for Chloe …
In yesterday’s Boston Globe, Ken Johnson came down pretty hard on Mass MoCA for its hard to fathom decision to show a rump version of an installation by the Swiss sculptor Christoph Buchel that the museum had commissioned, then cancelled in May after squabbling with Buchel over rising costs.
I’ll let the lawyers sort out who was the …
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I missed last night’s Entourage, owing to a difference of opinion between my Tivo and Time Warner Cable as to what channel HBO HD is on. At this point, anyway, I’m more interested in Flight of the Conchords, which I’d already seen on a preview screener. This show is obviously a much less serial, more …
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I’m not sure how many more weeks I’ll be able to do a John from Cincinnati Watch here, seeing as how part of the bargain in recapping a show is that the story should somehow, y’know, advance in each episode. Last night: John gets Joe to heal him after being stabbed by the Mexican Central Casting Gang, borrowing some Vietnam tidbit from …
In the LA Times today, Christopher Knight feels the same way that I did in Time a few weeks ago about the wisdom of having a dead artist, even a good one, representing the U.S. at the Venice Biennale. The artist of course, is Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1996, when he was just 38.
Here’s what I said in …
A shameless link to my piece in the new issue of Time, which uses the opening of the Philip Johnson Glass House as a chance to talk about the fate of other Modernist houses that are not being as nicely preserved as Johnson’s little gem. Which means they’re being bulldozed, or at least threatened with that fate.
And for the truly …
